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From the window of my home office, I can look through a grove of loosely-spaced Ponderosa Pines (Pinus ponderosa) and into a dense floodplain gallery of Black Cottonwoods (Populus trichocarpa) interspersed with a few Mountain Alders (Alnus incana).
The pines are a stable presence from one season to the next, but in this summer season the deciduous trees seem to throb with life as light and water mingle in a seasonal photosynthetic dance. In just a few short weeks they've created a dense canopy of new leaves, and by the end of November they'll have shed them.
The Black Cottonwoods and Ponderosa Pines, the Methow Valley's iconic tree species, represent two different divisions of plants and two very different evolutionary strategies. Both species rely on their leaves to convert water, carbon dioxide, and nutrients into energy that they can use to grow and reproduce. But they go about it in very different ways.